[http://2011.nznog.org/register do it.] It's that time of year once more and the annual NZNOG conference is just two weeks away. The 2011 conference is bought to you by our major sponsors Vocus Communications and Vodafone and is being held at the Intercontinental, Wellington, Wednesday 26th - Friday 28th January 2011. The org-team have put together another cracker bunch of presentations, including: * Peering in NZ - A Global Perspective - Mike Hughes (until quite recently, London Internet Exchange) * IXPs and Local Internet Growth - Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House * IPv6 Only - Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland) http://2011.nznog.org/full-program As usual multiple parallel tutorials on running on the Wednesday, APNIC IRME, MPLS, Carrier Grade Spanning Tree Protocol, Building wireless networks with Mikrotik Routers, and a hands-on Security tutorial with Team Cymru. Additionally there are two three day hands-on workshops, a routing workshop and an IPv6 workshop both running Monday 25th - Wednesday 27th. Both workshops have been run scores of times around the globe and is of very high quality. The routing workshop will be taken by Jonny Martin (Packet Clearing House) and Kurt Bales (eIntelligo), and the IPv6 workshop will be taken by Nathan Ward (Braintrust) and Gaurab Upadhaya (Limelight Networks). Full details for the routing workshop are at http://2011.nznog.org/routing and full details for the IPv6 workshop are at http://2011.nznog.org/ipv6 Places are limited so register early, the IPv6 workshop is nearly full! We are also running two sessions of shorter talks, the traditional Lighting talks, and a new Peering personals and IXP updates. Lightning talks are short talks/presentations that last no more than 10 minutes. They are a good opportunity to get your pet topic out there or perhaps to get some experience with presenting without having to go to a full talk. IXP updates provide an opportunity for both established and (potential) new IXPs to provide a status update on the state of the IXP, report on any interesting trends, problems, or anything else the NZNOG community may find useful. Peering Personals provide an opportunity for networks to connect with new peers. Anyone can have a quick talk about their network, peering locations, and peering policy, and any peers in particular they may be looking for. If you are interested in speaking in either of these slots, please email talks(a)nznog.org with a brief one-liner of who you are, and what you'll be talking about. There is no requirement to prepare slides for a lightning talk or IXP update. An off the cuff talk with a bit of hand waiving would more than suffice. NZNOG'11 would not be possible without the generous support of all our sponsors. Thanks Vocus Communications, Vodafone, InternetNZ, Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Network Hardware Resale, Cisco, FX, Connector Systems, WEL Networks, R2 Streaming, eintellego, APNIC, Paystation, Netspace and Citylink! Looking forward to seeing you in Wellington, Neil. For the 2011 org-team